Rock star David Coverdale of Whitesnake had a run-in with a black bear in his home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The bear broke in through a guest room on Wednesday morning and Coverdale ran him out of the house with an air horn canister.

Coverdale writes about the close encounter on his website.

The British singer, formerly of Deep Purple, said bear attacks had become a “daily worry” and that authorities had warned he may have to move out.

His first face-to-face encounter with a bear came in July, as he was “rinsing a cup or two at the kitchen sink”.

“I don’t mind telling you I almost succumbed to an involuntary bowel movement,” Coverdale told fans online.

The singer said he could feel the animal’s breath on his hand as he closed the kitchen window, before he “ran around” the house to make sure all the other entrances and exits were secure.

“I’d like to think it was the smell of my fab cooking that seduced him,” said Coverdale, “but it was only a slightly charred bagel!”

As we humans are taking up more space the black bears are getting less wary of us resulting in an increase in human to bear run-ins of this sort, especially in that area of the country.

Coverdale has had run-ins with black bears before.

The most recent incident saw a different bear break into the house though a sliding glass door, which had been left ajar by a guest.

The animal also took the opportunity to swim in the singer’s pool.

“We now have a big bear trap in the garden,” said Coverdale.

“For some reason, I don’t think these guys care for rock!”

The Lake Tahoe area, on the border of California and Nevada, is experiencing a rise in bear home invasions.

BBC News

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